![]() 1 Second, the position of the inscription, and its implication that the whole temple is being rededicated: more common means of adding imperial cult to an existing sanctuary are to introduce statues or altars or supplementary buildings, and care is normally taken to subordinate the imperial personnel to the traditional deity. First, its location: the normal pattern in the Roman province of Achaia, as in Asia Minor, is for imperial cult to be located prominently in the most public part of the city-centre. ![]() However, the dedication has two particularly striking features which make it worthy of closer attention. Scholarship on the imperial cult, too, has until recently largely overlooked this example. ![]() Most scholarship on Rhamnous has read the inscription as rededicating the temple to Livia, but without investigating what such a rededication might involve or commenting on the apparent eviction of the temple’s traditional dedicatee. 2 Price (1984), see especially p. 146-156.ġ In the first century AD the epistyle of the classical temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous, in the remote north-east corner of Attica, was inscribed with a dedication to the deified empress Livia. ![]()
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